Jo Ann Pflug (born May 2, 1940) is an American film and television
actress.Jo Ann Pflug was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to J. Lynn and
Kelly Pflug. She was raised in Winter Park, Florida, where her father
was elected mayor in 1958, and graduated from Winter Park High School,
Rollins College, and the University of Miami, receiving her BA in
broadcasting and her minor in American history.She had a weekly radio
show called The Magic Carpet, where she was the storyteller, and for
four years hosted a weekly live interview talk show called Montage.
Her background of interviewing led her to be the first woman to have a
live weekly TV talk show in the late 1960s in Los Angeles, on KHJ-TV
(channel 9).Pflug's first major role was as U.S. Army nurse Lt. Maria
"Dish" Schneider in the 1970 film MASH. Also in 1970, she starred in
an episode of Marcus Welby, M.D. titled "To Carry the Sun in a Golden
Cup", in which she played an ailing nurse.
actress.Jo Ann Pflug was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to J. Lynn and
Kelly Pflug. She was raised in Winter Park, Florida, where her father
was elected mayor in 1958, and graduated from Winter Park High School,
Rollins College, and the University of Miami, receiving her BA in
broadcasting and her minor in American history.She had a weekly radio
show called The Magic Carpet, where she was the storyteller, and for
four years hosted a weekly live interview talk show called Montage.
Her background of interviewing led her to be the first woman to have a
live weekly TV talk show in the late 1960s in Los Angeles, on KHJ-TV
(channel 9).Pflug's first major role was as U.S. Army nurse Lt. Maria
"Dish" Schneider in the 1970 film MASH. Also in 1970, she starred in
an episode of Marcus Welby, M.D. titled "To Carry the Sun in a Golden
Cup", in which she played an ailing nurse.
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